Mediazione interculturale: prospettiva decoloniale e pedagogia dell'in-contro

Following the other European countries that have experienced the immigration right before our country, from 1990, Italy experiences actions and settings of intercultural and cultural linguistic mediation in different contexts and institutions. The application-oriented diversities have developed in relation to both the aims of the institution itself and schools of thinking. Intercultural and cultural linguistic mediation are employed in legal, scholastic, extrascholastic, mental health, hospital, social assistance, family counseling fields. The changing of the economic and geopolitical and migration scenario taking place in the last decade, has influenced realities of educational and care giving contexts, and it requires mediation settings to be re-read from a not only Eurocentric thinking prospective. The contribution identifies some theoretical and methodological interpretations such as intercultural pedagogy, decolonial literature, complementarist thinking. It concludes by highlighting requests and proposals for a pedagogy of the encounter.